Whittier College's admit rate has risen 30.7 percentage points across the 11 reported years on file.
The headline numbers, drawn from CDS sections A–H.
Per-cycle Common Data Set values. Enrolled is first-year matriculants (CDS B1), not total undergraduate population. Blank cells mean the field was not published in that year's source CDS.
| Year | Admit rate | Enrolled | 6-yr grad | Retention | SAT (50th) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | 94.3% | 249 | 65.6% | 69.0% | 1,220 |
| 2021-2022 | 82.1% | 277 | 63.8% | 82.0% | — |
| 2020-2021 | 72.3% | 239 | 63.0% | — | — |
| 2019-2020 | 57.1% | 493 | 72.4% | 79.3% | — |
| 2018-2019 | 76.0% | 512 | 65.5% | 76.0% | — |
Cross-admits and statistical look-alikes, surfaced from the CollegeNumbers peer model.
Comparative observations derived from this school's reported CDS values and from IPEDS / College Scorecard reference data. Every claim is grounded in a number — no editorial overlay.
Cross-admit cohort spans an unusually wide selectivity range.
The schools Whittier College applicants most commonly also apply to range from 44.2% admit to 82.9% admit — a 38.8 pp band. A reasonable read: applicants choose by region or program fit rather than selectivity tier alone.
Cross-admits concentrated in the home region.
4 of 4 cross-admit schools are in CA — Whittier College draws applicants weighing it against in-state and adjacent-state alternatives, not coastal or selective national peers.
Broadly accessible — admit rate near the national norm.
Whittier College's 94.3% admit rate is in line with the national 4-year-institution median of 76.6% (per IPEDS, n=1437 institutions). Most U.S. four-year colleges admit between 61.2% and 88.3% of applicants.
Sources: each school's officially-published Common Data Set; IPEDS / College Scorecard for federal comparisons. Methodology →
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